Since observing Mitt Romney’s campaign, I see a new tactic taken up by Republicans in campaigning as well as in comments submitted to newspaper blogs: Ignore the truth.

The best example is the continual moaning of the conservatives about President Obama’s statements (or lack thereof) about the violence at one of our embassies. Anyone with a beating heart and the ability to open their eyes observed the president, on video, stipulate that terrorists and/or terrorism was responsible, yet the conservatives continue to bleat that “Obama didn’t say anything about terrorism for 14 days,” or something equally as ignorant and childish. …

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If Obama wins the election, he will have to send thank you notes to CBS, Candy Crowley and the mainstream media. CBS just released a previously unseen clip of an interview on ’60 Minutes’ that happened after the Benghazi attack statement by the President in the Rose Garden on September 12.

In the clip, Steve Croft asks the President directly “Do you believe it was a terrorist attack?” The President answered, “Well its too early to know exactly how this came about, what group was involved, but obviously it was an attack on Americans.” Republicans have always believed Obama was …

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The 1787 Constitutional Convention designed an electoral college that is being used by today’s candidates in a way that disenfranchises many voters.

What may have been the best they could do in Colonial days gives disproportional weight to the voters in small states by as much as 4 to 1. Voters in swing states barraged by media blitzkriegs of ads and automated phone calls willingly sell their votes in exchange for government projects and grants.

Election campaigns are so expensive that candidates sell their souls to win elections. Many voters don’t believe their vote counts, let alone makes a difference. …

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Does Mitt Romney really want to cut Big Bird on PBS or cut programs like those hosted by Bill Moyers that expose the abuses of the rich and powerful?

Last Sunday, Christina Freeland, author of “Plutocrats: the Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else,” was a guest on Moyers’ show. She reminded us that the big banks in Canada wanted fewer restrictions and more consolidation like what took place in the United States. But the Canadian government said no, which saved their banks from the crash that happened in the United States.

As an …

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I voted today for Marilyn Rasmussen (Pierce County Council). It’s my last vote ever for a Democrat or Republican. These parties are at the core of what is wrong in American and in politics – so much freedom, so little responsibility. They instigate vicious personal attacks on each other while campaigning and then become bedfellows to defend their power against the electorate.

Several years ago I personally witnessed the ugliness of our election process. I learned, from a Republican operative, about plans to defeat Rasmussen, then an incumbent legislator. As predicted, a last-minute mail campaign filled with vicious lies (perfectly …

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Re: “Story missed mark on mail-in ballots” (Viewpoint, 10-19).

I’m sure that the Pierce County Auditor’s Office does as good a job as any in handling and counting mail-in ballots. But Pierce County has only 11 percent of the registered voters in the state of Washington, so it hardly seems that Auditor Julie Anderson could speak for the efforts in other counties.

King County, with 28 percent of the registered voters in the state, rejected nearly 20,000 or 2.6 percent of the ballots received in 2010. Remove the late ballots and rejection is still high at 1.7 percent, with …

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Re: “Endorsements send the wrong message” (letter, 10-18).

I disagree with the writer for several reasons. Many people have neither the interest nor time to research and learn about the candidates and issues, so resorting to a knowledgeable source for guidance other than the negative commercial television political ads is of benefit to our state and country.

It’s too bad that this is the reality, but frankly most people are so taken up with just making ends meet that if they choose to benefit from intelligent, knowledgeable (in my opinion), unbiased editors whose primary job is to inform the …

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In November, I’d love to vote for the Progressive Party, but it doesn’t exist.

It’s the party that the Occupy Movement could have become had we chosen the democratic process rather than Woodstock.

Political change requires more than an urban campout. It requires a legislative platform instead of “demands,” passionate candidates instead of masked anarchists, and adult communication skills instead of mike-checks.

Just as there are great candidates for progressives to support, like Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, so there are attainable legislative goals:

• Overturn Citizens United and institute public election financing.

• Regulate banks and mortgage loan industries, …

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